Status Updates From Parents Have Feelings, Too:...

It’s already being very helpful and it has open my eyes to just how normalized it has become to be an adult who does not know how to regulate their own feelings who also expects their offsprings to regulate themselves easily. I have had a pretty hard time as a mom, not exceptionally but certainly its been a shock how intensely challenged I feel on a daily basis.

I've switched to listening at 2x speed on the audiobook because this has been a bit of a slog to get through. I don't want to give up, but I do want to be finished with it.